Learn How to Mine APA’s PsycINFO

Posted on May 13th, 2009 in APA, Databases, Research Techniques by Melody Royster

Want to learn how to use all the great features of APA’s PsycINFO? APA has free webinars that teach you how to wander through their databases and find the exact articles you want on the exact topic you’re interested in.

We subscribe to PsycINFO on 2 different interfaces — APA’s own, called PsycNET and EbscoHOST. Personally, I find PsycNET easier to navigate and it provides direct links to publisher websites which we often subscribe to directly. But they include the same data about the publications.

Go to APA’s website to find dates and links to the webinars. Make sure you watch the webinar about the interface you prefer, PsycNET or EbscoHOST. Navigating and using search features are very different depending on which you use.

And I’m always here to help if you need anything!

Language & Lingustics Compass

Posted on May 6th, 2009 in Databases, Journals, Uncategorized by Melody Royster

For many years, various social sciences and sciences have “Annual Yearbooks:” including broad overview articles, written by current authoritative researchers. These have been extremely helpful for teaching new areas of study, learning new areas of study, and finding reference sources.

Now, Wiley- has published an online journal, Compass, that provides broad, overarching articles on issues in Linguistics. Often articles in disciplines like Psychology or LInguistics report about very narrow issues or experiments. Compass make it possible to place the report into a larger questions and theory.

Here are some wonderful new papers in compass.

Sands, B.. (2009) Africa’s Linguistic Diversity. Language & Linguistics Compass, 3(2), 559–580. doi:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00124.x

Simpson, A. P. (2009). Phonetic differences between male and female speech, 3(2), 621-640. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2009.00125.x

Cohen, A. (2009). Probability in Semantics. Language & Linguistics Compass, 3(1),  265-281. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00097.x

Dallas, A. & Kaan, E. (2008) Second Language Processing of Filler-Gap Dependencies by Late Learners. Language & Linguistics Compass, 2(3), 372-388. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00056.x